Profile

CURRENT ACTIVITIES:
— Professor of Modern History at the Faculdade de Letras – Lisbon University.
— Head of the Instituto de Estudos Árabes e Islâmicos, “David Lopes”. (Lisbon University)
— Head of the Section of Luso-Arabic Studies of the Geographic Society of Lisbon.
ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS:
— Full professorship History – Lisbon University.
— Doctorate in History (Lisbon University – 1990).
— Graduated in Medicine (Lisbon University – 1980). College of Medicine, nº 23582.
— Graduated in Arabic ( École Nationale des Langues Orientales Vivantes — Paris, 1968).
— Graduated in History (Lisbon University – 1963).
PREVIOUS TEACHING POSTS:
— Professor of the Faculdade de Letras of Lisbon – since 1988.
— Professor of the “Universidade Nova de Lisboa” (1980-1988).
— Professor at the Instituto de Línguas Africanas e Orientais (Instituto Superior de Ciências Sociais e Políticas (Universidade Técnica de Lisboa) (1968-1980).
— Professor of Portuguese at the Catholic University of Paris (1965-1968).
PORTUGUESE ACADEMIC ASSOCIATIONS:
— Academia das Ciências de Lisboa; Academia Portuguesa da História; Academia Internacional da Cultura Portuguesa; Academia de Marinha; Sociedade de Geografia de Lisboa; Associação dos Arqueólogos Portugueses.
FOREIGN ACADEMIC ASSOCIATIONS:
— Instituto Histórico e Geográfico Brasileiro; Real Academia de la História (Spain);  Societé Asiatique (France); Union European of the Arabists and Islamists; International Union of Academies from 1993 (Brussels); Academia de Letras da Bahia (Brazil)
FORMER ACTIVITY:
— Vice-Chancellor of Lisbon University (1994-1998).
— President of the Department of History of the Faculdade de Letras de Lisboa (1992 to 1994 and from 1997 to 1999).
— Deputy-Secretary General of the European Union of  Arabists and Islamists.